This year's Emerson Exchange conference for the Americas will take place on my home turf of Austin, Texas during the week of October 24 through 28. Registration is open and you can save $400 through the end of August on the registration fee. Knowing that getting...
In the continuing era of lower oil and gas prices, the focus remains on optimizing current production assets. In a World Pipelines article, Keeping compressor stations online, Emerson's Stuart Raynor describes ways to reduce downtime and avoid lost production through...
A key component of reliable operations is the health of the rotating machinery within a process manufacturing or production process. Monitoring the vibration levels on this machinery is an important component in an effective reliability-centered maintenance program. I...
Let's close this busy week with a look at how internal flow simulations in the Rosemount 8800D Vortex flowmeter help to provide health checks for these measurement devices. In these two videos, Emerson's Lourdes Recio shows you step-by-step how to perform a health...
Fear of change is often the leading obstacle of progress. For process manufacturers and producers, reliability-centered maintenance concepts have been around since the 1970s. Technology advancements in sensors and wireless communications have vastly improved the...
Compressors are important assets for most process manufacturers and producers. Common threats to their health include high vibration, fluctuations in gas flow, surge conditions, suction or discharge restrictions, temperature spikes, seal failures and inadequate...
Effective reliability programs affect safety, availability and efficiency for process manufacturers and producers. Recently, at the Emerson Exchange conference in Denver, Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura Refinery was awarded Reliability Program of the Year. The Saudi Aramco...
Reliable process manufacturing and production is one of the pillars of top performing companies. In the ARC Advisory Group's Industrial IoT/Industrie 4.0 Viewpoints blog, IBM guest blogger Jim Crosskey highlights the role of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)....
Emerson's Shawn Anderson teamed with a recycled paper mill staff member and their local business partner on an Emerson Exchange presentation, Vibration Monitoring of Control Valves Prevents Unplanned Shutdowns. Here is the presentation abstract: Two control valves in...
Emerson's Ken Planchard and Will Goetz presented Business Justification for Maintenance & Reliability Readiness at the Emerson Exchange conference in Denver. Here is their presentation's abstract: Many organizations today do not think of Reliability as a business...
The autumn edition of Innovations in Process Control is now published. It is also available in German, Italian, Spanish and French. This edition contains articles on: Reliability management consulting Reliability value chain Improved engineering efficiency drives...
For process manufacturers and producers, reliability directly impacts safety, performance, and efficiency. As technologies continue to advance, predictive maintenance methods couple with improved work processes help to improve the reliability of process operations....
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